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Report: 1 in 3 OR Households Struggle To Afford Basic Needs

(Undated)  --  A new report released by the United Way shows more than one in three Oregon households struggles to meet basic needs, such as housing and child care.  The nonprofit classifies these households as ALICE, which stands for "asset limited, income constrained, employed."  The report, using data from Pacific Northwest households, shows 15 percent of Oregon households lived in poverty in 2013, while 23 percent qualified as struggling households, for a total of 38 percent of households below the ALICE threshold.  The United Way report shows Washington with 32 percent of households below the threshold, and Idaho with 37 percent. 

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